{"id":5067,"date":"2010-05-04T12:03:32","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2010-05-04T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T16:09:02","slug":"violent-rhetoric-from-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5067\/violent-rhetoric-from-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Violent Rhetoric from the White House?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the White House will put its \u201cboot on the throat of BP\u201d to make certain the oil company takes all necessary measures to control the spill and minimize its effects in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>The image evoked by Mr. Gibbs is one of the harshest I\u2019ve seen used by the White House against a private organization.  Not even Wall Street has been so rebuked.   Come to think of it, this administration hasn\u2019t used such language against a sworn enemy like Iran.  Stop and think about the image Mr. Gibbs invokes.  The boot belongs to the party in power, the White House, while the choking and gasping wind-pipe belongs to BP.<\/p>\n<p>Of course BP is worthy of a tough reprimand and should be held responsible for its role in the Gulf disaster.  It\u2019s just unnerving when those in power use such intimidating language when talking about a civil matter.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s the Tea Parties that are accused of over-the-top language?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said Monday that the White House will put its \u201cboot on the throat of BP\u201d to make certain the oil company takes all necessary measures to control the spill and minimize its effects in the Gulf. The image evoked by Mr. Gibbs is one of the harshest I\u2019ve seen used by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1215,1214,1217,1216,1218,44],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bp","tag-gibbs","tag-gulf","tag-oil","tag-rhetoric","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5071,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions\/5071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}